When we can, must give olive oil ? Gestational age, dosage etc ?

We do not use olive oil for energy fortification at all, but sometime MCT oil.

There a discussion about MCT oils recently, see link below.

 

In our unit, we add MCT oil 0.5 ml/feed in case of VLBWI and LBWI after reaching full feeds with full fortification if not gaining weight according to their growth curves.

Special cases, if a preterm with PDA we do a mild restriction of fluids 120 to 130 ml/kg/d and increase caloric intake with addition of MCT oil 0.5ml /feed.

We do not use olive oil at all, according to my understanding olive oil is a LCT, not a MCT.

@agoz do you use olive oil in your unit? It would be interesting to know more about it.

 

Thanks

 

If we use special care milk formula for premature babies then as per my opinion no need of MCT oil or olive oil.

I quite agree with Stefan on this – MCT oil appears to be the appropriate means of bolstering energy intake, more so in preemies. Olive oil just doesn’t seems to be the right option and it was also good to know that some of the units do not even use olive oil.